986 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
from the oil from the leaves, and the refractive index of each 
fraction determined : — 
SI'S 0 
Fractions 
B. I>. 
"D 
I. 
... 145°- 154’ 
1-48395 
2. 
... 154°— 105" 
1-48914 
3. 
... 165°— 180" 
1-49485 
4. 
... above 180" 
1.49703 
The results obtained are very similar to those recorded foi 
the oil from the leaves of the South American plant (Phillipines). 
To summarise 
Neither the leaves, the stems nor the roots of Lantana Camara were found 
to contain an alkaloid. 
The aqueous liquid was found to contain a large quantity of tannin and 
sugar ; the solution in which sugar was found was glucosidic in character. 
The petroleum extract of the green resin was found to contain a mixture of 
resin acids in very large quantities. 
The neutral portion of the petroleum ether extract was found to contain 
very likely a mixture of palmitic and stearic acids, mixture of oleic and 
Emucic acids and very probably a phytosterol. 
The other extract of the resin was found to contain a crystalline substance, 
which is a glncosidc; the formula of this substance may very probably 
bo C, 7 H 42 0 4 . 
The oil yeildcd by flowers has got a pleasant and very powerful and 
persistent odour. 
945. Lippia nocli flora, Rich., h.f.b.i., iv. 563. 
Scuts. : — Vashira. 
Vern. : — Bhiu-okra ( H. ) ; Mokna, buk'an, jalnim, jorakh, 
mundi, boken butee, chamiara (Pb.) ; Ludra (P.) ; Wakan 
(Sind.) Tan (Dec.); Ratolia (Bomb.); Podutalei (Tam.); 
Bokenaku (Tel). 
Habitat : — Abundant in wet places throughout India. 
An annual herb, roughly pubescent, creeping, minutely 
strigose, extending 6-30in., much brauched, often rooting from 
the nodes. Stems prostrate, sub-quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves 
numerous, small |-I J in., obovate, narrowed to the sessile base, 
toothed at top sharply, rather thick, minutely punctate. 
Flowers io in. long, pink or white, crowded in axillary, long 
stalked, oblong-ovoid, bracteate heads. Heads at first nearly 
globose, but becoming spicate and oblong in fruit. Peduncles 
l-3in. from axil of only of each pair of leaves. Bracts ovate, 
acute, or subacute. Heads { by |in., ovoid or cylindric. Calyx 
